Butterball changes hands

Ownership of turkey producer Butterball is changing as pork giant Smithfield sells its 49 percent share to partner Maxwell Farms for $175 million US. Maxwell has a deal in place to sell 50 percent to pork and grain processor Seaboard Corp. Smithfield decided to sell after its effort to buy all of Butterball failed.

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